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Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Hugest of thanks to everybody who joined in last week – there were lots of spoooooky colours about in the land of Blog :)

Also Mr Linky was misbehaving last week as some of you may have noticed – he kept reproducing, the little beggar. But everybody's links were safe so nobody has missed out. I still don’t know what happened but it got sorted eventually, thanks to my lovely Lols – thank you chick xxx

In business since 2002, Simon Says Stamp is striving to offer you the best selection of Rubber Stamps, Altered Art, Scrapbooking, Artist Trading Cards, and Paper Crafting Supplies in the world. We stock over 100,000 items in our warehouses so that we can offer you quick service and one stop shopping at a great price! We are located in Ohio, the heart of it all. Our team works hard to give you a fulfilled shopping experience and is always open to your ideas and suggestions! Happy customers are the heart of our business. We work hard to find and deliver to you the latest in stamping and paper crafting supplies! Attending classes, workshops, and sales meetings around the world, our goal is to keep our product offerings fresh and current. Make us your one stop easy shop - and we'll deliver right to your door!

There is a $20 voucher up for grabs for you to spend in Heidi’s shop – woohoooo :)

Hugest of thanks for a fabulous prize :)xxx

Before we get to the cards we have some news for you.

We have a brand new member of the Papertake Crew and she is the fabulous Natalie. I love her work and I asked her if she would like to join us and was delighted that she said YES :) So welcome to Papertake chick, and we cannot wait to see what you make xxx

But we also have some sad news because this week we have to say goodbye to our fab GDT girlies, Andie and Annette. Thank you both so much for being part of our team and it’s been a pleasure working with you both xxxx

OK, without further ado, let’s check out what the PTW crew did this week.

So that’s what we did and now it’s over to you, and if you get a sec, don’t forget if you get a sec to check out our individual blogs and see what else we have been up to.

As always, could we ask a huge favour peeps please.

Could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead please pretty please xxxx. It’s ever so easy to do – see our sidebar – and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. And also, can we remind you nicely that’s it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking. We hope you understand that it’s only fair to those who make a new card xxx

And also, can I just give you a nice gentle reminder to ask if you could make sure that you link your card and not your blog when using good old Mr Linky please my lovelies. It makes life so much easier for our DT if they don’t have to go searching for your cards.

Thanks ever so muchly – we really do appreciate it xxx

Also just to let you know that sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry, with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the mo – grrrrrr what a nightmare. But please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.

Well done chicksie and if you e-mail me I’ll pass your details onto Katharina and hugest of thanks to Whiff Of Joy for sponsoring us xxx

And check out Laney’s beautiful card peeps ….

What gorgeous work.

So onto this week and our challenge is

Spooooky Hues

All you have to do this week is to use Halloween inspired colours, so think reds and blacks, purples and oranges, you know the sort of thing lol!! You can do a Halloween card if you want but you don't have to, as long as the colour theme is there.

We are sponsored this week by our very own lovelies, Mary & Andrea who are The Ribbon Girl (s)

And feast your eyes upon this prize ……

It’s a gorgeous Halloween Mini Kit - OMLife those colours are drool-worthy and thank you so much to our Mary & Andrea xxxx

Before we get to the cards, we have a GDT call so if you want to join us in November please put GDT after your name on old Linky.

So without further ado, let’s check out what the PTW crew did this week - I think they are all AMAZING (the PTW crew AND the cards that is lol!!) :)

So that’s what we did and now it’s over to you, and if you get a sec, don’t forget if you get a sec to check out our individual blogs and see what else we have been up to.

As always, could we ask a huge favour peeps please.

Could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead please pretty please xxxx. It’s ever so easy to do – see our sidebar – and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. And also, can we remind you nicely that’s it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking. We hope you understand that it’s only fair to those who make a new card xxx

And also, can I just give you a nice gentle reminder to ask if you could make sure that you link your card and not your blog when using good old Mr Linky please my lovelies. It makes life so much easier for our DT if they don’t have to go searching for your cards.

Thanks ever so muchly – we really do appreciate it :)

And finally don't forget to put GDT after your name if you want to be part of our GDT in November

Before we move on to this week it is with great sadness that I have to tell you that our Marcea is sadly stepping down from the DT – work and life just get in the way sometimes and we wish her the very best and good luck for the future and hugest of thanks for being part of our team xxx

So onto this week and our challenge is

Get In Shape

So you just need to use 3 different shapes on your card and your card base can count as one – it’s as simple as that!!!

We are sponsored by the wonderful Katharina from

who is of course an ex Papertake Weekly girlie herself so we LOVE having her back.

And this is what you’ll be getting if you are our winner …

It’s the beautiful Praying Angel.

She is just gorgeous and thank you so much Katharina xxxx

So without further ado, let’s check out what the PTW crew did this week.

So that’s what we did and now it’s over to you, and if you get a sec, don’t forget if you get a sec to check out our individual blogs and see what else we have been up to.

As always, could we ask a huge favour peeps please.

Could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead please pretty please xxxx. It’s ever so easy to do – see our sidebar – and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. And also, can we remind you nicely that’s it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking. We hope you understand that it’s only fair to those who make a new card xxx

And also, can I just give you a nice gentle reminder to ask if you could make sure that you link your card and not your blog when using good old Mr Linky please my lovelies. It makes life so much easier for our DT if they don’t have to go searching for your cards.

In business since 2002, Simon Says Stamp is striving to offer you the best selection of Rubber Stamps, Altered Art, Scrapbooking, Artist Trading Cards, and Paper Crafting Supplies in the world. We stock over 100,000 items in our warehouses so that we can offer you quick service and one stop shopping at a great price! We are located in Ohio, the heart of it all. Our team works hard to give you a fulfilled shopping experience and is always open to your ideas and suggestions! Happy customers are the heart of our business. We work hard to find and deliver to you the latest in stamping and paper crafting supplies! Attending classes, workshops, and sales meetings around the world, our goal is to keep our product offerings fresh and current. Make us your one stop easy shop - and we'll deliver right to your door!

There is a $25 voucher up for grabs for you to spend in Heidi’s shop – woohoooo :)

Sir Stampalot started life as an online retailer providing quality rubber stamps and crafting products. In 2001 due to their growing customer base they moved into retail premises running alongside their internet store.

Sir Stampalot stock a fabulous array of the very best names in stamping such as Penny Black, Hero Arts, Magenta, Magnolia, Molly Blooms and Art Impressions to name but a few, along with all the latest products as they are released.

The internet order service offers fast and reliable dispatch of your orders and also a pre-order option so that you will receive new releases as soon as they are available. Customers travel to the shop from all over the Country and a warm welcome is always on hand. Regular classes covering all types of crafting and demos days are held in the light and airy classroom when refreshments and special offers are available. They look forward to hearing from you.

And there is a fabulous Martha Stewart PATP punch up for grabs ….

And last but by no means least, our very own Mary & Andrea who are of course

So that’s what we did and now it’s over to you, and if you get a sec, don’t forget if you get a sec to check out our individual blogs and see what else we have been up to.

As always, could we ask a huge favour peeps please.

Could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead please pretty please xxxx. It’s ever so easy to do – see our sidebar – and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. And also, can we remind you nicely that’s it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking. We hope you understand that it’s only fair to those who make a new card xxx

And also, can I just give you a nice gentle reminder to ask if you could make sure that you link your card and not your blog when using good old Mr Linky please my lovelies. It makes life so much easier for our DT if they don’t have to go searching for your cards.

Thanks ever so muchly – we really do appreciate it xxx

And now on with the hop.

From here you need to go to Angie’s Blog so have fun and keep looking our for the prizes and giveaways :) If you get lost, the order of the hop is -

Welcome to Papertake Weekly Challenges!

Hi everyone! Welcome to PTW! No need to join! Just check out the challenges set every Tuesday night, do them if you would like to and then upload them to your blog! The challenges will be fairly open to interpretation so whatever you decide to make is upto you! (cards, LO's, altered art, ATC's etc!!) Don't forget to leave a comment with a link to your blog so we can all check out your creations!! (If you do not have a blog, please send me a picture via email and I'll add it for you!) Have fun! x

Contact us!

Just Say No lol :)

It would be a great help to us if you would consider turning off word verification peeps. To do this is really easy and all you need to do is go to Customise > Settings > Comments > then scroll down to where it says comment moderation and select always (this won't stop anybody leaving you a comment but they won't show on your blog till you approve them). Then scroll down to show word verification for comments? and select No

Thanks for doing this xxxx

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Please note: All cards displayed on PTW are for inspiration only. Please do not directly copy the designs for use on blogs, competitions, magazine enteries or to sell (unless you have contacted the artist and have obtained their permission). Thank you.